What is the hardest class you have ever taken?

[Lindagerr]

My worst class was Organic Chemistry II with lab 5 credits. When I started the class I had A's in all my previous Chemistry classes. While I was taking the class 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of lab each week I was fired/Quit my job, I had a teenage daughter at home, I found a full time temp job while I looked for a full time real job then I found out I was pregnant. I got a full time job, tried to do it all through the first semester exhaustion, then a chicken Pox epidemic went through work and I wasn't sure I had ever had it (not good when you are pregnant). I finally cried my eyes out to my professor and was given a little more time to finish my last 2 lab write ups. Somehow I made a C and was happy it wasn't a D or F. That was the last college class I took for 20 years.

[soliloquy]

You have to make an assumption that you receive interest payments monthly, not daily. The nominal rate is 0.01/12, or 0.000833/month. The average number of days per month in an average year is 365.2/12 = 30.43 days/ month. The amount of our accumulated daily deposits is therefore
P = 30.43*5 = 152.17 (same as $1826 per year/ 12 months/year)
Using the same technique as #5:
F = 152.17((1.00083)59 + (1.00083)58 + etc.
Summing the factors using a spreadsheet:
F = 152.17(61.499)
F = $9358.11

If you look at my equation the 60th month is actually at the end of the equation before the equal sign.

[dposborne]

Don't know if this counts since its a Military Class:
Reactor Principles at Naval Nuclear Power School.
Basically an insane class that covers such topics as:
Reactor Physics, Nuclear Physics, and reactor dynamics.

For most in the program this is the class that breaks them and causes a failure. When I went through the program this was the class that caused the 75% attrition rate.

[soliloquy]

Don't know if this counts since its a Military Class:
Reactor Principles at Naval Nuclear Power School.
Basically an insane class that covers such topics as:
Reactor Physics, Nuclear Physics, and reactor dynamics.

For most in the program this is the class that breaks them and causes a failure. When I went through the program this was the class that caused the 75% attrition rate.

Yes it counts. I took Persian Farsi at DLI. I thought that was hard. Those classes sound impossible. LOL

[Lindagerr]

Wow 75% attrition!! Is there a minimum grade required or does it just make people give up? I have a friend that just graduated from Nuclear Power School I know it took everything he had to pass.

[Peter123456789]

High School Honors Chemistry. Not understanding a word my Ghanaian professor was saying didn't help to spark an interest in the subject matter.banghead

[Kaz]

Just based on pure difficulty of the material? Probably Analysis 1. For those unfamiliar you can think of it as "Calc 5". Analysis 1 and 2 were both tough just from the material.
Based on my preparation for it? Calc 1. I actually straight-up failed it and it was the experience of failing it that made me want to become a math major lol.
Based on life's extenuating circumstances? I've had several times in my life where I had to withdraw from all classes, regardless of their difficulty level. So I don't think those count.

[dposborne]

Wow 75% attrition!! Is there a minimum grade required or does it just make people give up? I have a friend that just graduated from Nuclear Power School I know it took everything he had to pass.

For Power School the minimum grade is a 2.5 based on a 4 point scale. Since the early 2000's the attrition rate has gone down due to not being able to get the numbers they needed out to the fleet to be operators (they eased up on some of the coursework and afforded more opportunities for a second, third or sometimes even a 4th chance to make it through).

I think that one of the biggest things that made it so hard for me was that we were in sunny Orlando Florida for a year and never really got to see the sunlight haha... You went into school with no windows (everything is classified so no windows allowed) in the early morning and left after it got dark. On top of the normal 40 hours of class during the week, it was not uncommon for one to spend another 40 to 50 hours of the week devoted to studying for exams.

[dfrecore]

I think that one of the biggest things that made it so hard for me was that we were in sunny Orlando Florida for a year and never really got to see the sunlight haha... You went into school with no windows (everything is classified so no windows allowed) in the early morning and left after it got dark. On top of the normal 40 hours of class during the week, it was not uncommon for one to spend another 40 to 50 hours of the week devoted to studying for exams.

Sounds fun! I wonder why they have a high attrition rate???

[hightecrebel]

Introduction to Chemistry w/ Lab.

I tried to take it while on my first deployment to Afghanistan. Didn't work out so well. I then tried to retake it, and ended up missing the 40% of grade final when my daughter was born 45 days early.

Someone out there just doesn't want me to pass that class...